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Change.org ask ‘Did the Anti-Vaccination Movement Cause the Whooping Cough Epidemic?’

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

A great post over at Change.org asks the question and delivers the right answer – yes, yes they did. It also targets the right org as being responsible – Barbara Loe Fischer’s anti-vaccine group NVIC. Whooping cough is making a comeback. This summer, the highly contagious upper respiratory infection struck more than 6,000 people in [...]

Posted in Autism, Barbara Loe Fischer, NVIC, Orgs, Science, Vaccines, Whooping cough, badscience | 7 Comments »

Katie Wright demonstrates AoA mentality

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Over at the Clown Blog, Katie Wright pens a sulky screed targeting Peter Bearman. Lets go through it. Dr. Peter Bearman, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, recently released a research paper alleging that half of the meteoric rise in ASD cases is an artifact. You know- “better diagnosis” and “greater awareness.” A blind, [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Katie Wright, Peter Bearman, Science, Vaccines, badscience | 15 Comments »

New thimerosal/autism paper – signal vs noise

Monday, September 13th, 2010

The new thiomersal paper that Sully has blogged will be attacked by the antivaxxers in at least one key area. The area that will be attacked is – to those well schooled in the way good science operates – a standard way to improve the signal to noise ratio of the results. Or to put [...]

Posted in Autism, Autism Epidemic, Mercury, Science, Thimerosal, Vaccines, badscience | 2 Comments »

Mark Blaxill promotes bad science

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

[wags finger]...and don’t you ever forget it ;) Basically, the story is that The Blax wrote a blog post in which he said: Despite the relentless drumbeat of propaganda from the CDC, public health authorities and the thuggish on-line goons of the medical industry, there’s a funny thing going on. The evidence of a connection [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Mark Blaxill, badscience | 12 Comments »